Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-610
Advisory Release Date: 2015-11-23 13:41 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-11-23 21:17 Pacific
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in the keyring function's garbage collector in the Linux kernel. The flaw allowed any local user account to trigger a kernel panic. (CVE-2015-7872)
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum clean all followed by yum update kernel to update your system. You will need to reboot your system in order for the new kernel to be running.
i686:
kernel-devel-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
perf-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
kernel-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
kernel-headers-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.i686
noarch:
kernel-doc-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.noarch
src:
kernel-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-headers-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64
perf-4.1.13-18.26.amzn1.x86_64